tenacious

adjectives

good at remembering
"a retentive mind"; "tenacious memory"
is derived from
stubbornly unyielding
"dogged persistence"; "dour determination"; "the most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics"; "a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it"- T.S.Eliot; "men tenacious of opinion"
is derived from
is derived from
sticking together
"two coherent sheets"; "tenacious burrs"